МІЖНАРОДНИЙ КОНКУРС ТВОРЧИХ РОБІТ ШКОЛЯРІВ, СТУДЕНТІВ ТА ВЧИТЕЛІВ
"LESSONS OF WAR AND HOLOCAUST – LESSONS OF TOLERANCE"
History of the Holocaust ("Catastrophe", "Shoah"), which became one of the greatest tragedies in human history, is part of the history of Europe and Ukraine. "The Shoah fundamentally challenged the foundations of civilization. The unprecedented character of the Holocaust will always hold universal meaning" - states the Stockholm Declaration of 2000. During the Stockholm Forum it was decided to recommend the Holocaust Studies to the countries of the Council of Europe and Ukraine became the first country in the former Soviet Union that integrated the Holocaust history course to school history education. Since 2011 Ukraine marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the state level.
Holocaust history learning makes it possible not only to remember the tragedy of war and the suffering of the peoples of Europe, but heroism in resistance, examples of mutual aid between peoples, spiritual heroism for rescuing human lives. The Holocaust history should be learned in the context of world history and the history of Ukraine, so the topics for this Contest include the history of the Ukrainians and Jews, the tragedy of the Holodomor, the Nazi genocide against Roma, etc.
Ukraine suffered the greatest losses during World War II. That is why we appeal to citizens, public organizations and state bodies of Ukraine and other countries to join 12 International Creative Works Contest for Pupils, Students and Teachers "Lessons of War and Holocaust - Lessons of Tolerance". This competition on the base of understanding the lessons of history should promote ideas of humanism and tolerance, rejection of chauvinistic and xenophobic ideologies, violence and totalitarian ideology.
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On September 27-28, the XXI I International Contest of creative works for schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and teachers “Lessons of war and Holocaust – lessons of tolerance”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies was held online. The opening began with a moment of silence and commemoration of those who died because of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. And since the final of the Contest was held on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, the symbolic beginning of the event was a lecture-conversation by Dr. Igor Shchupak “Babyn Yar as a symbol of the Holocaust, a genocide that was not to be repeated, and the unlearned lessons of history”, during which the wars and genocides of the past were talked about through the prism of the tragedy of the present.
This year, the participants of the Finale presented a wide range of forms of performance of the Contest works: these are scientific studies on history and literature, and search works created on local history and family materials, drawings and multimedia works, methodical development of educational classes. The selected works will be published in the publications of “Tkuma” Institute.
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On September 20-22, the Final event of the jubilee XX International Contest of creative works for school and university students, postgraduate and teachers "Lessons of War and Holocaust - Lessons of Tolerance", organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies was held online. The long existence of the event is an indicator of its success - interest in the competition grows every year. Despite the full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine and the challenges faced by every Ukrainian, this year we received more than 150 applications for participation in the competition, of which 64 made it to the Finals.
"There are few educational, creative Contests that have been held for decades. Unfortunately, it happens when we consider the wars and genocides of the past through the prism of the tragedy of the present, said Dr. Igor Shchupak during the opening of the Final of the COntest. - Therefore, it was with special feelings that he participated in the opening of our jubilee, 20th competition of creative works. It is incredible how talented Ukrainian youth are, and how acutely they perceive the tragedy of the Holodomor, the Holocaust, the genocide of the Roma, the deportation of the Crimean people - and the modern genocide of the Ukrainian people, organized and carried out by the authorities and the army of the Russian Federation."
Contest participants presented a variety of creative works: historical research, artistic and musical expositions, amateur films, methodological developments. Selected works will be presented in publications of "Tkuma" Institute.
Congratulations to the winners!
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On September 29-30, the final of the XIX International Contest of Creative Works for school and university students, postgraduates and teachers “Lessons of War and Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies was held online. Despite the full-scale war unleashed by russia against Ukraine, this year we received about a hundred applications for participation in the Contest, 40 of which are in the finals. During the two competition days, the participants made analogies between the events of World War II and the modern Russian-Ukrainian war, genocides 20th century and the present, shared experiences and their vision of the "lessons of war and the Holocaust", which were reflected in exploratory studies and multimedia developments, poetry and essays, videos and drawings.
Congratulations to the winners!
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The Final of the XVIII International Creative Works Contest for teachers, school and university students, postgraduates “Lessons of War and Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, “Tkuma” Institute, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. The event was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy. Approximately 200 creative works were submitted to the Contest this year, only 50 were defended, names of the winners are:
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The final of XVII Creative Works Contest for teachers, school and university students “Lessons of War and Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance” which took place in Dnipro from September 29 till October 1 is over! 50 finalists from all over Ukraine presented their works online and offline. Pedagogical seminar for teachers, interactive classes for students, presentation of the documentary “Kalinindorf”, guided tours in the Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” and “Bet Hana” International Humanitarian and Pedagogical Institute tours – everything was held according to the quarantine sanitary requirements. All participants, jury members and organizers were supposed to have extremely fruitful and interesting work for the whole 3 days of the Contest.
Creative works were rated by competitive jury. Rayisa Yevtushenko, head of the Department of Education, Language Policy and Education of the National Minority of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Dr. Yehor Vradii, Nataliia Ostrovska, associate professor of the Department of Journalism at ZNTU, Iryna Piskarova, head of “Tkuma” Institute educational department and Dr. Igor Shchupak.
We truly thank everyone who was with us, and, of course, congratulations to the winners!